Historical episodes

Cotten
appeared in different roles in fifteen episodes, including the
title character in the series premiere, "The Trial of Edward
Pritchard", the story of a physician of
questionable background in Glasgow, Scotland, who is
accused of having poisoned his wife and mother-in-law and who
claimed to have been a personal friend of the Italian revolutionary Garibaldi.

The series also aired a Victorian-era
mystery "The Tichborne Claimant", with Gladys Cooper portraying the Roman Catholic Lady Tichborne, who seeks the
whereabouts of her son, Roger Cooper, who disappeared at sea. In
her search, Lady Tichborne encounters the Protestant Thomas Castro of Australia, played by Robert Middleton. She tries to make Castro
her heir and to pass him off as her son Roger, despite obvious
difference in body weight and education between the two men. Two
trials determined that Castro was an imposter and had committed
perjury. He spent fourteen years in prison and returned in poverty to Australia. Dayton Lummis appeared in this episode as
Colonel Duncan Smythe.